5:43 PM,
Feb. 2, 2013

Written by

Kevin Manahan
| USA Today

Bernard Pollard is known for hard hits (just ask the New England Patriots), and he leveled one at the NFL this week when he predicted the league wouldn't be around in 30 years, because the crackdown on ferocious hits eventually will turn off bruise-thirsty fans.

Pollard looks into the future and sees a game without kickoffs or blocks below the waist, a game neutered by a concussion-obsessed commissioner, a game in which fines for illegal hits are handed out like business cards at a printer's convention.

It's not every day - even under the bright lights of the Super Bowl, where people have said the ...